The Morning Journal (Lorain, OH)
Lake Ridge pulls away from Open Door, 3-0
The Lake Ridge boys soccer team scored all of its goals in the second half to dispatch Open Door, 3-0. Fuad Shalhout was on the scene and has a match recap and postmatch reaction.
After a scoreless first half, Lake Ridge clicked in the second half en route to a 3-0 home win over Open Door on Aug. 28.
The Royals got goals from senior Armon Parsian, junior Matt South and senior Cameron Kaderle.
The Royals improved to 2-1-0.
“Our team played so much harder in the second half,” South said. “On my goal, I just saw the ball on the field and I kept running. I megged one or two people on the way — it wasn’t intentional. I just had tunnel vision right to the goal.”
Lake Ridge coach Everett Palache kept his message simple at halftime.
“I told them to just hit the goal,” he said. “We wanted to keep the same things going forward. We just couldn’t get discouraged.”
Parsian opened the second half in the first minute with a goal from the far right side past Open Door goalkeeper Tommy Kemp. In the 51st minute, South followed through on the same side of the field and Lake Ridge’s offense was in attack mode for a 2-0 lead.
Open Door, despite a strong effort from Kemp and his eight saves, couldn’t muster any offense and only
Kaderle, in the 63rd minute, took advantage of an open net and ripped a shot from midfield to ice the game.
“Lake Ridge and their coaching staff did a really nice job making adjustments in terms of getting people forward,” Open Door coach Joel Baker said. “They understood how we were playing in the back and just made good adjustments.”
The Patriots (2-2-0) start seven freshmen and sophomores and only have one senior. For Baker, he understands growing pains are going to happen.
“We’re all learning,” Baker said. “It takes a lot of time and effort. We will get better. We have some real talent on the team but at this point in time, it’s going to be up to them to decide who is going to show up and how they want to play moving forward.”
The Royals have seven freshmen and sophomores, and are a program that hasn’t won a postseason game in
five years and are looking to build a winning culture.
They will need guys such as Parsian to step up.
“I got an early break right down the side, and I just took it and saw an opening and I put it in,” Parsian added about his goal. “I set the momentum and we kept going from there.”
Coming soon
There will be more on Lake Ridge’s win and thoughts from Parsian, South and Palache in the coming days. Check back in The Morning Journal in both online and print.